Overview
- Executive producer Iain MacLeod said William Roache "has a job for as long as he wants it," confirming Ken Barlow will not be written out via a death.
- He praised Roache’s consistency with dialogue and described him as the most professional member of the cast.
- Roache has portrayed Ken since Coronation Street’s 1960 debut and holds a Guinness World Record for longest-serving soap actor.
- MacLeod said past meeting-room jokes about killing off Ken were quickly dismissed.
- Producers indicated that threads from the recent Coronation Street–Emmerdale crossover will be explained in episodes set to air in spring and summer.